Camp-stool.



W. R. LEIGH.

CAMP STOOL.

APPLICATION FILED IAN-13, I915.

Patvntvd Nov. 12, 1918.

WITNESSES.- QWA BY GK wad 62, ATTORNEY.

WILLIAM R. LEIGH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CAMP-STOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

Application filed January 13, 1915. Serial No. 1,919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM R. LEIGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Camp-Stools, of which the following is a full. clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to improvements in folding chairs and the same has for its object more particularly to provide a simple, etlicient and reliable folding camp chair, which is composed of few parts and is easy to assemble for use, and to dismount to permit of packing and transportation.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a camp stool comprising a folding support, and a detachable seat having integrally-formed pockets at its edges adapted to receive the upper ends of said support.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a camp chair havinga seat formed of an integral piece of material and provided at its edges with a plurality of integrallyformed projecting members which are adapted to be folded downwardly and inwardly and permanently secured along their edges to the conforming edges of the seat proper.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends, my invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing one form of camp stool constructed according to and embodying my said invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail face view of the seat proper with its end portions extended prior to the securement thereof to the body portion of the seat to form the pockets for the support-members;

Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the seat ith the end flaps riveted to the body portion of the seat to form the pockets;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail side view showing one end of the seat with the pocket thereon, and the upper portion of a support disposed within said pocket, and

Fi 5 is a detail perspective vie show ing t e underside of one end of the seat and the pocket thereon with the end of a support disposed therein.

in said drawings 10 designates the chair as a whole comprising a folding support 11 consisting of three members 12, 12 which are secured together by bolts 13. The said menibors 12, 12, when folded together, form substantially a cylindrical structure.

1% denotes the scat proper which is preferably made of heavy leather or other suitable pliable material, and is here shown as triangular in outline and provided at each of its corners with a narrow, radial end portion 145 having parallel longitudinal edges. From each end portion extends an integrally formed foldable portion or [lap 15, formed as a prolongation of its end portion 11, and extending beyond the geometrical outlines of said seat proper 14 and the end portions 1 1" thereof. The foldable portions or do )5 15, 15, and the radial end portions Li, M of the seat 14 are provided with registering apertures 16, 17, respectively, for the reception of rivets 18 which are adapted to extend through the apertures 16, 17 when said foldable members or flaps 15, 15 are folded on :r against the underside of the seat 14 and so cured thereto to form the pockets 19.

in connection with my improved seal it is to be noted particularly that when the same is in use the strain upon the seat is directed principally against the corner or end portions 1 1 where the same oin with the edges of the foldable portions 15, and that by forming said foldable portions or flaps l5 integrally with the body portion ll of the seat, and thence riveting said foldablc pow tions or flaps at their opposite edges to 2hr corresponding edges of the end portions of the seat, a strong, firm pocket is provided for the reception of the upper ends of the supporting members 12, and which pocket will not give way or be liable to tear us a result of use.

While I have shown my seat as formed tri angular in outline it will nevertheless be quite obvious that the outline of the scat may be varied, and still permit of he embodiment of my invention therein.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire by Letters Patent is 1. In a folding chair, a seat formed of pliable material and having a body portion of polygonal outline, a lurality of end portions extending radial y from the corners of said body portion, and flaps formed as prolongations of said end portions folded downwardly and inwardly within the geometrical outline of said end portions, and secured along their opposite, longitudinal edges to the corresponding edges of said end portions to form pockets, substantially as specified.

2. In a folding 1 hair, a seat having a body portion of triangular outline formed of pliable material, narrow end members extending radially outwardly from the rorners of said body portion, and flaps formed as prolongations of said narrow end members folded downwardly and inwardly within the geometrical outline of said end members, and riveted along their opposite, longitudinal edges to the underside of said end members to form pockets, substantially as specitions extending radially from the corners of said body portion and having parallel longitudinal edges, and flaps formed as prolongations of said end portions and having parallel longitudinal edges, said flaps being folded downwardly and inwardly and secured along their parallel longitudinal edges to the corresponding edges of the under surfaces of said end portions to form pockets, substantially as specified.

Signed at the cit county and State of eW York, this 211th day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

WILLIAM R. LEIGH.

Witnesses:

CONRAD A. DIETERICH, J QSEPH G. QUINN, Jr.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissicsa: of Patents, Washington, D. G.

of New York, in the 

